A brave JCB security guard has been hailed for saving a woman's life after pulling her from a burning car - just moments before it exploded.

Hero Adam Sharman dragged the woman driver to safety after witnessing a car crash on his way home from work.

The 26-year-old, who works at JCB's World HQ, saw the two-vehicle smash on the outskirts of Cheadle.

He and another passing motorist quickly realised a woman was trapped inside her burning vehicle.

They managed to prise her crumpled door open and pull her out just before the car exploded into a blazing fireball.

Adam pulled the woman from this burning Citroen Saxo

Adam said: "When I stopped you could see the smoke. I got out and there was a smashed up Citreon Saxo. I could hear the woman screaming.

"She was stuck behind the steering wheel and the chassis was all crumpled.

"The engine was on fire and we had to bend the car’s door frame because it wouldn’t open.

"The flames started to get bigger so we decided just to take an arm each and kept dragging her back – the car then completely went up in flames. We took her quite far back but you could still feel the heat."